[Mageia-dev] [110263] (boost build change)

Sun Sep 25 16:50:58 CEST 2011

On 25.09.2011 04:26, Juan Luis Baptiste wrote:
+> On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula at iki.fi> wrote:
+>>
+>> In addition, the change modifies SONAMEs to a non-upstream configuration
+>> (it adds '-mt' to them), plus changes the devel symlink names to have an
+>> '-mt' in them (which is easily workaroundable with compatibility
+>> symlinks which I'm adding now, though).
+>> This makes some sense on Fedora as they package both single-threaded and
+>> multi-threaded versions of all the libraries, while we (and e.g. Debian)
+>> have only the multi-threaded versions (without '-mt' as per upstream).
+>>
+>>
+>> (BTW, while it doesn't affect us, the Fedora convention seems quite
+>> scary, since software could expect the non-'-mt' variant to be
+>> multithreaded as per upstream and other distros...)
+>>
+>>
+> 
+> True, some weeks ago I had to patch flaw to look for
+> libboost_filesystem-mt instead of libboost_filesystem, maybe there are
+> other programs that will break too :S
+
+Yes, I noticed this because Stormi reported an issue in IRC yesterday.
+As I've now added symlinks so that the standard names work again, the
+patch isn't necessary anymore, though.
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+